Tourism is recording a record summer and is heading towards a historic year after the pause caused by the pandemic. The explosion of demand from domestic and foreign travelers and rising prices, The growth of activity also tourism sector employment.
The tourism sector continues to accelerate job creation and hit an all-time high for workers in July. Tourism activity reached companies from different branches last month total 2,807,626 members Social Security is 3.9% higher than the same month last year and 7.2% above pre-pandemic levels in the summer of 2019.
The industry has been hitting an all-time high in terms of employment for the fourth consecutive month. With the impact of Easter, the tourism industry reached 2.72 million members in April, 2.75 million employees before the summer season in May, 2.76 million members in June and a new high of 2.8 million in July. reached. First time.
About one in seven jobs
According to the records of SGK and Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Tourism employment now accounts for 13.6% of the total number of subsidiaries in the national economy.Almost one in seven jobs in the Spanish market. “Tourism employment represents an extraordinary 2023 and the data shows the strength of our business structure and the Government’s undisputed determination after the pandemic,” said Industry Minister Héctor Gómez.
During Last year, the tourism industry created a total of 104,981 additional jobs. Compared to July, when the employment record, which was maintained until April last year, was broken, increases were experienced in all tourism branches. Increase in accommodation services 62,504 (24,002 in accommodation services, 38,502 in food and beverage services); increase in travel agencies was 5,758 workers; On the other hand, employment increased by 36,719 in the other touristic activities record.
The number of paid employees in the tourism sector, which made up 82.1% of the total affiliated employees in the sector in July, increased by 4.7% compared to the same month of the previous year. Self-employment in tourism, which makes up 17.9% of all engaged employees, increased by 0.3%.
stable employment
It is estimated that the employment created from the sector this year is stable and of high quality. excellent tourlobby that brings together the thirty largest companies in the industry (among them, Meliá, NH, Iberia, Globalia, Riu or Amadeus), emphasizes that temporary employment has fallen to historic lows and that permanent contracts have become so widespread that they intensify two-thirds of the total, excluding permanent discontinuous ones.
In this case, according to the analysis of the cooperation of the data corresponding to June, the provisional rate of the sector decreased to only 7.9% of all contracts, compared to the 38.5% that it had risen before the pandemic in 2019. Perpetual contracts exceed 67% of total affiliates in June (40% full-time permanent and 27% part-time), up from 49% in the last year before Covid. During this period, the labor market has overpaid 650,000 permanent contracts and underpaid 518,000 temporary contracts, underscoring the lobbying of the big groups in the industry.
Exceltur also highlights that the explosion in perpetual contracts far exceeds perpetual contracts in the full political debate on statistical accounting for such contracts. Permanent contracts almost triple in weight discontinuous constants, which accounted for 24.3% of the total. Temporary permanent workers – those who only work during the months of activity and receive unemployment benefits during the low season each year – are a traditional figure in the tourism industry due to the seasonality of the job.
The tourism industry itself is well aware that greater stability in employment has come thanks to the implementation of the labor reform, approved by the current Government and enacted in March 2022, which has reduced cases where companies may be able to sign temporary contracts, resulting in indefinite consequences. contracts and indefinite permanent contracts will skyrocket.